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PATENTBD JUNE 16, 1903.

L. B. LEWIS.

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APPLICATION FILED JAN. 26. 1903.

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Patented June 16, 1903.

LOUIS B. LEWIS, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 731,192, dated June 16, 1903.

Application filed January 26, 1903. Serial No. 140,459. '(No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LOUIS B. LEWIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Games, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the improvement of game apparatus; and the objects of my invention are to provide an improved game apparatus of novel form and arrangement of parts so constructed as to provide for the support of the game-board in different positions,to providein conjunction with the gameboard numbered ring-receiving pins of peculiar form and arrangement, and to produce other improvements, the details of which will be more fully pointed out hereinafter. These objects I accomplish in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved game-board, showing the same in a horizontal position. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing the game-board supported in an inclined position, and Fig. 4 is an under side view of the board.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In carrying out my invention I employ a game-board 1 of triangular form, which may be suitably covered. Rising from the gameboard at intervals and having a pyramidal arrangement to conform to the triangular shape of the board are pins or posts 2, each of these posts having an enlarged head portion of a half-round form, as indicated at 2, the fiat surfaces of said heads being uppermost. From these head portions 2 the pins gradually increase in circumference to their points of connection with the board.

To the under side of the board and adjacent to each of the three corners is hinged a sup porting-leg 3,wh ich is adapted when the board is not in use or when it is desired to have the same lie approximately flat upon a floor, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings, to be folded against the under side of said board. As indicated in Fig. 2, the board may be elevated from the floor in a horizontal position by throwing all the legs downward and to their outward limit, and, as indicated in Fig. 3, the two forward legs, which are at the base of the triangle, may be folded against the underside of the board with the rear leg extended, so that the base of the board and said rear leg may contact with the floor, resulting in the .board standingin the inclined position shown.

The pins 2, which project from the board, have the flattened surfaces of their head portions 2 numbered, preferably, from 1 to 10, the smaller numbers being used on those pins which are at the front of the board and the number 10 pin being located within the apex of the triangle and at the greatest distance from the player ,who stands at a given distance from the board in front of the base portion thereof.

In playing the game suitably-constructed rings are designed to be thrown by the player so as to alight upon the board about the pins,

the Winning of the game depending upon the added numbers of the pins encircled by the rings of a given number thrown by the players. In the playing of the game it is obvious that the board may be supported in either ofthe positions heretofore described.

The employment of the pins with the flattened enlarged heads serves to increase the interest in the game, owing to the increasein skill required to cause the thrown rings to drop over said pin, inasmuch as the striking of a ring against one of the flattened pintops tends to throw thering away from the pin, while the rounded under sides of said pin-heads serve to increase the chances of the ring slipping off the pins by rebound after having once been thrown about the same. The triangular form of the board results in a gradual decrease in the number of pins in each transverse row thereofand in the chances of the ring being thrown over the highernumbered pins being lessened. V

I am aware that the broad idea of providing projecting pins'ad apted to be engaged by thrown' rings is old, and therefore do not broadly claim such construction.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a game apparatus, the combination with a solidly-formed board of triangular shape, apex pin, of supporting-legs hinged to the of a plurality of equal-height pins projecting under side of said board adjacent to each from the upper surface of said board and arcorner thereof, substantially as specified.

ranged in parallel rows, the number of pins LOUIS B. LEWIS. in said rows gradually decreasing from the In presence of base toward the apex and the numbers on A. L. PHELPS,

the heads of said pins increasing toward the W. L. MORROW. 

